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i 4 ' Tkanity, Fee-rutty I, 15 MAH" TRIBUNE, Medford, -Ore., V Medfoi "Everyone te Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by : MKDFORD PRINTING CO. ; 33 North Fir St. Pb. SP 2-6141 ', SOBI.P.T W BUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC W ALLEN JR, . Managing Editor i EARL H ADAMS. City Editor 'HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor HICHAM JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Women's Editor 'i DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr ' An. Independent Newspaper ' Entered as serond class matter at Hertford Oregon under Act of 1 : - March 3. 1897 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES tBy'Matl In Advance. Copy 10c. t Dail-" and Sunday 1 year $15.00 i Dally and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 1 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4-23 f Snndav Onlv One vear S4.20 I By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv- er; Talent and on motor routes. Dailv and Sunday 1 year 18.00 Daily and Suny l mo. i-ou i Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c ' All Terms Cash in Advance ; Official Paper of City of Medford United Press International J FuU Leased Wire I MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU " OF CIRCULATION i Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of- fices in Ne York. Chicago. De ft troit. San Francisco. Lo Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.l,. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION .NATIONAL EDITORIAL iggfal lac5IIw Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 5. 1949 (Saturday) : : Plans are made for a second 'j quiz program to help finance ,f completion of the Hawthorne I park swimming pool. H Medford's record-breaking cold spell enters its 43rd day. ! 20 YEARS AGO i Feb. 5, 1939 (Sunday) A Medford resident in need v of ready cash offers a 100- year-old pair of spectacles for ; sale. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Bad ! minton has hit the rural areas, 1 and city lovers of the horse - are talking about forming a 3 hunt club to chase a jackrat- ' bit s in a red coat, and yell ; fTallyho.' " ; 30 YEARS AGO . Fab. 5, 1929 (Tuesday) ! 'A local ham reports last ; night was one of the best on 3 record for radio, as he got New York with ease. Southern Oregon starts to I Hood the legislature with de j mands for financial aid to irri- gation districts. ; 40 YEARS AGO a Feb. 5. 1919 (Wednesday) 3 The Jackson County Farm bureau membership campaign gains headway. I John H. Cochran returns 5 from a business trip to Port- land and Salem. I 50 YEARS AGO ' Feb. 5. 1909 (Friday) The upstate press lends its I support . to the Crater Lake ' road proposal. I The critical public chimes In as a new, homegrown tele ' phone group seeks to buck the J Bell company. Whafs Your I.Q.? . Nine or ten correct is superior; I seven er eight is excellent; five er , six is good. "-i" What, colors are in the ;lag of France? 2. What is a unicameral leg- Islature? I 3. If you commit a lapsus linguae, of what are you i guilty? i - -4. Name the author of the J story, "The Gold Bug.". 5. Correct the following "The speaker contrasted the ; defenses of France to those 'of Italy." 6. What is a carafe? 7. In the nursery rhyme, t what King called for what? .. 8. What is an ohm? ' - 9. The game of poloorigin- - ated where? : 10. Is it possible for ice to i attain a temperature lower than, freezing? C Answers: 1. Red, while and blue. 2. One having only on ; house. 3. Slip of the tongue, 4. Edgar Allan Po. 5. " . . , France with those 6. Glass water bottle. 7. Cole- pipe." bow. fiddlers three. 8. Unit of electrical resistance, 9. India. 10. , Yes. BAD TO WORSE I ' Chicago-4CPI)- Leonard Low. enstein, 32, explained today why he fled from a policeman, , only' to wind up with eight tickets : for reckless driving, speeding, improper turns and . going through a red light. . didn't want to get a ticket," - he said. i Penny Wise, Pound Foolish ' - 1 Our Washington correspondent, A. Robert Smith, had a revealing piece in this paper the other day, having to do with the Eisenhower ad ministration's proposed budget for the forest service. Total expenditures proposed are nearly $129 million. . . Cash income for the year from forest service operations will just about equal this amount. So, on a dollars-and-cents . basis, the forest service will be self-supporting during the coming fiscal year if the budget is approved unchanged. DUT, in our view, the forest service is not, never has been, and never should be looked upon as a dollars-and-cents agency, where expenditures have to be bala: against income. . ' In the westr. ctates, in particular, and in Oregon in most 3.ticular, the forest service serves as the basis of a goodly slice of the econ omy, with thousands of jobs depending on it, and the amount of timber made available for har vesting. And even more important, the forest service is charged with the care and management of the forests a major resource, important in more ways that just lumber economics for the years to come. THE proposed budget is about $6,787,200 less than the amount originally proposed by the forest service as necessary for its operation. One item was increased over the current fiscal year, to be sure that for timber sales, the one place where added expenditures can be expected to show an immediate return to the federal treas ury- . ..... In all other categories, the budget was either cut from the forest service's proposals, or held about even with current For instance, the amount allocated for road construction was cut; personnel housing and fa cility construction funds were cut; the recreation al program's funds were cut by 15 per cent; insect control funds were cut; cooperative tree-planting funds were cut; research funds were cut, as were other budget items.' TN SHORT, according to a report made by the staff of the Senate interior committee, the reductions "occur in capital investment type op erations which are the key to long-term develop ment." r Is this true economy? We would say no ; to the contrary, it is short-sighted and penny-wise-pound-foolish. ' Smith's article points out' that the access road fund decrease will work a hardship, particularly on small timber purchasers, by reason of the fact that the forest service will timber purchasers to do more road construction a job which in most cases only the larger op erators are prepared to undertake. SEN. Richard L. Neuberger, in commenting on trio oministraHnn'o nrnnnaala Vias f rns tn snv "In my opinion, the proposed budget does not re . fleet a realistic appraisal by the administration of the management requirements involved in the full multiple-use of our timber resources . . . Here is one budget area where increased governmental investment cannot be criticized as an 'unbalancing' factor, inas much as revenue from forest service operations has consistently provided a profit margin." It is true, of course, under heavy pressure to line, and so on. And when defense expenditures account for some $45 billion to $49 billion of the $77 billion budget (and small for safety), one bureau of the budget is every spare nickel off spending proposals. DUT we cannot help Lippmann, when he f uture is limited only by own daring, and our own willingness to spend (or "invest ) enough to see that it continues to grow and develop. The "off-vvith-their-heads" type of budget balancers, the ones who criticize budgets as "too big" without pointing out where they can be safely cut; who forget that from one-half to two thirds of the federal budget is for defense and security items; who would even revert to the asi nine and inexcusable proposal of-a 10 per cent "across the board" budget cut without examina tion or thought these are showing a lack of faith in this country's ability to grow, to do for itself the things that must be done for an un limited future, to make the investment in America which will triple its dividends in the future. SMITH'S article closes by saying: " "Project this kind of squeeze (on the forest service) to other agencies and you see how the president could propose to balance the budget for next year." ' People in this area are familiar with the forest service's work, and with its needs. ; If they were as familiar with the work of other federal agencies, which presumably have sustained similar cut-backs, they would probably find similar signs of short-sighted parsimony. There are undoubted places where the budget can be cut without danger to the future, and we hope that Congress can ferret them out. But they, do not lie in areas (like the forest service) where a dollar saved today is many dol lars lost tomorrow, nor in areas where the health and, welfare of the economy and of the people are at stake. E.A. levels. ' have to revert to asking that the administration is cut spending, to hold the are criticized as being too can understand how the lookmg for ways to lop but agree with Walter declares that America's our own imagination, our Dennis the Matter of Focf ; joSePh aisoP PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE Washington - The allegedly "calculated risk" that Presi dent Eisenhower and Secre- I tary of Defense 4 Neil McElroy are now tak ing with the n a t i onal de fense is pre cisely compar able to the risk taken by neurotic teen agers who n 1 a v Pnccian Jospb Aisop roulette. There may well be five chances out of six that McElroy is right in thinking the Soviets will not have the missile power to destroy this country, just as there are five chances out .of six that a Rus sian roulette player will not blow his brains out. But there is also the sixth chance that the Soviets will have this kind of missile power before very long. The existence of the sixth chance is undeniable, because Secretary McElroy's forecast of Soviet missile capabilities is not based on absolute knowledge. It is exclusively based on the "national esti mates." These forecasts . are made by honorable and ex pert men, working with a vast mass of data. -But the man chiefly responsible, CIA.. Di rector Allen W. Dulles, would be the last to claim any sa cred infallibility for his fig ures. FAR from being infallible, the American officials fore casts of Soviet weapons de velopment have rather regu larly fallen short of what the Soviets actually accomplished. In the case of missile develop ment, moreover, total catas trophe may perhaps be the price of the kind of estimating error that is well within the range of possible error. That is the new feature of the situation, which makes the Eisenhower - McElroy policy into a Russian roulette game played with this nation's fu ture. In order to see why there is no exaggeration in these statements, it is only neces sary to assume that the na tional estimates indeed con tain a quite modest error. On the basis of the estimates, Sec retary McElroy said the So viets are not yet mass-produc ing their ICBMs. Nikita Khrushchev says the opposite, Suppose that Khrushchev is teliing the truth, and suppose that production began last May, after the last certainly identified Soviet ICBM test in April, 1958. . ' SUPPOSE further that initial Soviet output was at the rate of 15 ICBMs a month-the rate of output we could to day atain with our own Atlas ICBM, if we wished to spend the money for it. Suppose, finally, that the Soviets acti vate a second ICBM produc tion line in the middle of this year. If the Soviets have fool ed Secretary McElroy and the national estimators by just this narrow margin, they will have a stock of about 350 ICBMs by the end of 1959. For some time after the end of 1959, the United States Strategic Air Command, plus a few Atlases on "soft" pads plus a few IRBMs on "soft" pads will be the sum of our retaliatory power at home and abroad. No part of this struc ture of retaliatory power wul be protected by an anti-missile warning system before the end of 1959. Thus the whole structure will be exposed to surprise missile-attack; and every significant target in the entire structure can be cov ered by 350 Soviet ICBMs, plus the large stock of IRBMs which the Soviets have built for use against SAC's over seas bases. A LITTLE American retalia- xx tory power might indeed survive a Soviet missile strike on this imagined scale. But Menace without a permanent, large- scale air alert (which SAC is not authorized to mount for the usual budgetary reasons), the SAC commander, Gen. Thomas Power, would be lucky to have 10 per cent of his force available for bis re taliatory strike. "If I have no warning,' General Power himself has said, "and if I have no capa bility to operate under con ditions of no warning (as by a permanent air alert), then it is conceivable you could knock out SAC." General Power, being a very wise man, has also ob served that "from a deterrent point of view," w hether Khrushchev can or cannot handle the retaliatory" strike is "not the point. If he thinks he can, this is just as danger ous as a real capability." Gen eral Power has further re marked that "since the Rus sians have been subject to greater disasters than we have" and have much less "fear of the loss of human life, we must not be misled to think that (the scale of de struction that) will deter us, will necessarily deter them." THESE remarks made by General Power introduced the last . vital factor in the Eisenhower - McElroy Russian roulette game, which is the Soviet Air Defense Command headed by Marshal S. S. Biriu sov. The Americas Air -Force has always systematically down-graded the effectiveness of air defense; and the nation al . estimates follow our Air Force. But the Kremlin has each year spent from 18 to 22 per cent of the immense Soviet defense budget on the air defense command. Hence one must assume that the Kremlin disagrees with the- American Air Staff. Being a ground-officer, Marshal Biriu sov is also unlikely to share our big bomber Generals' view about air defense. And only consider what will be Marshal Biriusov's position if Khrushchev calls him in one day, and sternly asks him: "Can your command hold damage to this country with in acceptable limits if 90 per cent of the enemy's retalia tory power has already been destroyed? Or have we been pouring an average of one fifth of the whole defense budget down a rat hole for the last 13 years?" What can Biriusov then re ply, except, "Yes, I can do my job," or "Yes, but I'd like another six months?" In truth, if the circumstances are allowed to arise in which those questions can be put to Marshal Biriusov, the Russian roulette game will be already lost. Copyright 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF : A YOUNG MISS got a job as maid in the home of playwright George Axelrod and couldn't wait to tell, her best friend, a cook, about her exciting first week. "You should see the famous people that come ' to the Axelrods," she exulted. "In five nights, I waited on Marilyn Monroe, Kitty Car lisle, Lauren Bacall, Arlene Francis, and Frank Sinatra!" "Glory be," marveled the cook. "And what do they talk about?" "Us," said the maid. ' Yon Yonson came from Swe den to Minnesota in 1908. In 1958 he registered his first serious complaint against the English language. "Yumpin' Yiminy," he exploded, "Yust ven ay learn how to say TELLY dey change it to YAM!? Wife of a henpecked husband: "Well, are you a man or a mouse? Squeak up!" Sign on a lawn near a public beach: "Your feet are killing me!" " C 1SS9, by Bennett CerL Distributed by Kins Feature Syndicate, Nasser Adds Russia s By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor In the past, President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United A'-pb Republic has tweaked the nose of the British lion and pulled Uncle Sam's beard. Now he also has twist- i ed the tail of theRussian M bear. The out come of this 1 a t est adven ture should prove interesting, since it not only involves Nasser's avowed stand as a neutral but also the Soviet Union's frequently proclaimed position as a friend of Arab nationalism. Here is the declared posi tion . of those two erstwhile friends, Nasser and Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev. Nasser, Dec. 23, 1958, m Port Said, Egypt: "We shall smite down anybody who is opposed to Arab nationalism . . . the Communist party in Syria started working against our unity and against Arab nationalism." First Public Blast Khrushchev, Jan. 27, 1959, in Moscow: A warning to UAR "officials" to stop perse cuting "progressives" in Arab countries, because Soviet lead ers cannot remain silent in the face of a reactionary cam paign under "the false slogan of anti-Communism." Nasser's Port Said blast was one of his " first in public against the Communists. He followed it up immedi ately with a roundup of sev eral hundred Syrian Commu nists and about 200 suspected Egyptian Communists. He also closed two Cairo printing plants which printed Soviet and Communist Chinese pam phlets in Arabic. Communism long had been outlawed in Egypt but it was his first crackdown on- the Reds in Syria. Meanwhile, both Syria and Attempt ilui jn e ft sum Egypt collectively (the UAR)ing, of course. Consulting the Today Cr Tomorrow By Walter FULBRIGHT AND DULLES Senator Green has decided wisely both in resigning as chairman r and in remaining as the senior member of the .Commit tee on Foreign R e 1 a tions. Old men, the used to say, should not be leaders but c o u n c i lors, Walter ... , . , Lippmann With his long experience and his vigorous memory will be a good coun cilor. Senator Fulbright, who suc ceeds him, is a much younger man. But he is an old hand. In terms of his interest and active participation in foreign affairs, which dates back to the early days of the second World War, there ' are few if any members of Congress who have such long and con tinuous inside knowledge. In thinking about his differences with Mr. Dulles, it is well to remember that insofar as he has been critical, he has spoken as one of the pioneers and early supporters of the global policies which have replaced the old isolationism. As a matter of fact, a study of his record will show, I believe, that, the weight of his criticism has been directed not against the great pur poses of foreign policy but against mistakes and distor tions in their application. HIS advent as chairman of the committee marks a turning point for the better in the conduct of our foreign to Maintain Neutralist Position were heavily, indebted to the Soviet Union for previous military aid and both were leaning heavily on the Soviet Union for anticipated eco nomic aid in Egypt in develop ing their backward economies. Had Pledged Aid For example, the USSR had pledged Egypt economic and technical aid in building the Aswan Dam, key to Nasser's dream of opening millions of acres of Sahara Desert lands to agriculture. At the official rate of exchange, the Soviet pledge for the Aswan Dam came to $100 million. At the free rate, it is closer to $25 million. Syria, too, had a $100 mil lion deal with the Soviets. This one, signed in late 1957 Nation's Top Defense Kept Busy Talking to By FRANK ELEAZER Washington - (UPD - It seems like the main thing congress men want to know from De fense Secretary Neil H. Mc Elroy is when are we going to catch up with Russia. The other question he keeps hear ing from House and Senate committees is: "Mr. Secre tary, can you come back at the same time tomorrow?" So here he was, before the House Armed Services com mittee, explaining that on an overall military basis we aren't behind Russia, and do ing it just as politely and pa tiently as if he hadn't put in most of his working days since Congress got organized doing just this same thmg This was his sixth com mittee since mid-January and his 12th day of testimony. And when Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) dismissed him at lunchtime, it was the same old story: Come back at 10 a.m. Thursday., McElroy had seen it corn- Lippmann policy. For the first time since the new era which began with World War II, the Adminis tration will have a respon sible and articulate and loyal opposition. Until the conver sion of Senator Vanderberg at the end of the war, the opposition was sullen and de structive. The Vandenberg ar rangement was an emergency device for getting indispen- sible things done. But for the long run it was not a good method of governing. For in stead of promoting debate, which educates the people and refines the policy of the Ad ministration, the Vandenberg bi-partisan system avoided and evaded debate. The same must be said for the so-called bi-partisan arrangement with Sen. Walter George, who sup pressed debate when the coun try . would have been much better served by a thorough debate. The time has now come, as the last three Congression al elections have made sharp ly clear, when - within the framework of our world re sponsibilities we must move beyond the stereotypes and the slogans of the post-war years. We cannot stand pat forever on all the positions taken in the post-war era. For the post-war era is end ing, and here and abroad among our allies a new gen eration is on the threshhold of power. With Sen. Fulbright, as the chairman of the com mittee, the windows of the Senate will be open to the fresh air of a new time. BY coincidence, Mr. Dulles, had just about decided to go to Western Europe when Senator Green stepped down. It is no secret that Mr. Dulles will be trying to work out with Dr. Adenauer and our other big European allies, a workable policy about Berlin and Germany. It must be a policy on which the allies are agreed and in which the Rus sians are interested enough to negotiate. This will not be easy to achieve, and it may well be that Mr. Dulles has now undertaken the most im portant mission of his whole career. It will help him, not hurt him, if it is known in Europe that there is building up in the new Congress' an insist ence that we move off dead center, and do something more than declaim the rea sons Why we cannot do any thing at all about anything. Nor are there so . many as once there were in this coun try who are afraid that the allies will fall apart and that Congress wlil revert to isola tionism if we stop consulting our fears and acting like par alyzed rabbits. (Copyright 1959. New York Herald Tribuna Inc.) to Imperialist before the Syrian - Egyptian merger, provided for vast projects which included the building of a railroad, dams, power stations and irrigation facilities and gave Russia prac tically a free hand in oil explorations. Both nations had promises of other loans and technical assistance from other Iron Curtain countries, including Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany. Attitude May Change Through 1956 and 1957, one announcement followed an other, aU telling of increased Iron Curtain penetration of two key areas of the Middle East. But what now? For Russia, the future may chart he keeps spread out be fore him, on which each mem ber is identified by face, name and location at the big U shaped committee table, he could see that 14 of the 37 members were still to be heard from. Under Vinson's rules, each gets his moment of glory. End Not In Sight Sort of wearily, it seemed. McElroy nodded his head. Gen. Nathan F. Twinine. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and our No. 1 mili tary man, didn't have to nod his. He had his orders. He sits each day at McElroy's left hand, sometimes as a wit ness himself and sometimes as consultant to the boss. They have sweated out the questions so far of the Sen ate Foreign Relations commit tee (one day); the Senate Armed Services committee (two days); the Senate Com bined Preparedness and Space committees (one day); the House Appropriations commit tee (four days); House Foreign Affairs committee (one day); and the House Armed Serv ices committee (four days as of today, with the end not clearly in sight). An aide in McElroy's Pen tagon office, who never sees the chief anymore, inquired plaintively the other day whether he could be reached at his "branch office" in the Capitol. Of course he can't. His office is his brief case, crammed With documents and (when he has' time between appearances to prepare them) summary statements. Store Appears Unminded Sometimes the lawmakers don't even want him to read these statements. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) the other day told the former Proctor & Gamble boss to forget the statements, which' he implied was soft soap, and get right down to the facts. Johnson issued this ukase, of course, in a statement of his own, and McElroy, possibly on the strength of this fact, insisted he had a right to read his. He read it too. One thing about it, Mc Elroy and Twining never are lonely. Their " top Pentagon helpers are usually at the Capitol, too, sometimes in such depth you wonder who is minding the store. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chief of staff of the Army, has been called before five committees so far, sometimes along with Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker, and for as many as three days hand running. fGen. Thomas D. White, the Air Force chief, Aaen (rem RANK MOtSAN -HAROID DAY OR NIGHT. - Site : - y hold a test of its own im perialistic policy. In recent years, both the USSR and Red China have paid lip service to the precepts laid down by the Bandung conference, namely, no interference , by large nations in the affairs of smaller ones. Both have pledged support to national ism, regardless of its relation ship to Communism. That atti tude now may change. And what of the UAR? It is noteworthy that Nasser's public crackdown on Commu nism came at a time of im proving relations with Britain and the United States. Nasser has played West against East before, and successfully. It may be he plans to do it again. Officials Congress has hit four committees in cluding one on disarmament. Air Secretary James H. Douglas is a Capitol regular too. Adm. Arleigh A. Burke and Navy Secretary Thomas H. Gates Jr. also have been daily witnesses, raising the prospect that maybe Gates got tired of the pace. Any way, he finally has turned in his suit. TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) FEBRUARY 5. 1925 Damage estimated at $250,000 was sustained, thousands of head of sheep and cattle were drowned, houses and small buildings were swept away, and rail road bridge was washed out , and Vale was covered by three feet of water after the dam, on Bully Creek. .19 miles west of Vale, broke at 3 o'clock this morning. The rushing waters invaded Vale at 6 a.m., leaving in their path the carcasses of 300 cows, 3.000 sheep, .and unnumbered dogs and horses. FEBRUARY 5. 1843 . .. The Oregon Spectator. Jacksonville, in its first is sue, out today, carried the promise of Editor William C. TVault that the paper would be non-political in nature. Editor T'Vault con tinued in his salutatory: - "It is our object to give foreign as well as internal news. Our means of obtain ing news at present are lim ited; but as the country im proves, facilities for obtain ing news will improve. Our columns will be open for the reception of literary productions, and all scien tific gentlemen are invited to contribute." the Ceurfhouw SNODGKASS, FUNEKAl'DSXCTOtS PHONE SP 2-S030 1 hme, I
